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species Platycrana viridana (Olivier, 1797)

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• Distribution:
  •  Wallacea, Philippines
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Specimen records are available.
• Citations (17):
  • Olivier, G.A. 1797[1792]. Encyclopédie Méthodique, ou par ordre de matières par un société de gens de lettres, de savans et d´artistes. Histoire Naturelle 7:636   >> Note: [name given in Stoll Insect etc., pl. 6: 20] >> Mantis viridana    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4748
  • Audinet-Serville. 1831. Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zool. Paris 22:60   >> Cyphocrana viridana    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4749
  • Gray, G.R. 1835. Synopsis of the species of insects belonging to the family of Phasmidae 36   >> Platycrana viridana    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4747
  • Burmeister. 1838. Handbuch der Entomologie 2:578   >> Cyphocrania viridana    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4750
  • Audinet-Serville. 1838[1839]. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Orthoptères 241   >> Platycrana viridana
  • Burmeister. 1840. Germar’s Zeitschrift für die Entomologie 2:38   >> Platycrania viridana    urn:lsid:Phasmida.speciesfile.org:TaxonName:4751
  • Kirby, W.F. 1904. A synonymic catalogue of Orthoptera. 1. Orthoptera Euplexoptera, Cursoria et Gressoria. (Forficulidae, Hemimeridae, Blattidae, Mantidae, Phasmidae) 1:385   >> Platycrania viridana
  • Redtenbacher. 1908. Die Insektenfamilie der Phasmiden. III. Phasmidae Anareolatae (Phibalosomini, Acrophyllini, Necrosciini). 3:369   >> Platycrania edulis
  • Bruner. 1915. University Studies of the University of Lincoln, Nebraska 15(2):233   >> Platycrania viridana
  • Günther. 1929. Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum, Berlin 14:624 >> Platycrana viridana
  • Bragg. 1995. Phasmid Studies 4(1):25   >> Mantis viridana
  • Kevan & Vickery. 1997. Micronesica 30(2):330   >> Note: Nomenclature; In Micronesia >> Platycrana viridana
  • Herwaarden. 1998. Science in New Guinea 24(2):96   >> Platycrana viridana
  • Otte & Brock. 2005. Phasmida Species File. Catalog of Stick and Leaf Insects of the world 279   >> Platycrana viridana
  • Hennemann. 2020. Zootaxa 4896(2):161 et al, figs   >> Note: Egg, illustrated [not formally described] >> Platycrana viridana
  • Hennemann. 2021. Zootaxa 5073(1):102, 172, 175   >> Note: from Sulawesi and Peleng Is. >> Platycrana viridana
  • Brock & Büscher. 2022. Stick and leaf-insects of the world, Phasmids 558   >> Note: Checklist of world species >> Platycrana viridana
• Type specimen information:
  • Type locality: Asia-Tropical, Malesia, Maluka, Moluccas, Amboina, Banda, New Guinea et al. Not clear where any type(s) are from
  • Kind of type:  unspecified primary type
  • Specimen category:   multiple Females
  • Status of type:  lost

• synonym edulis (Lichtenstein, 1796)
• synonym grandis (Thunberg, 1815)
• synonym jamaicensis (Houttuyn, 1813)
• synonym moderata (Kirby, 1884)
• synonym viridis (Donovan, 1800)

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